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UAB Cancer Center investigators are authors on more than 50 abstracts accepted by ASCO for the annual meeting. More than 25 abstracts include UAB researchers as a lead author. One of UAB’s highlighted presentations at this year’s meeting will be an observational study that indicates a more rapid decline in Medicare costs and patient resource utilization during implementation of a lay navigation program. Other topics range from examining patient navigation as a model to increase minority participation in cancer clinical trials, to using combination therapies with PARP inhibitors in treating HER2 positive-breast cancer, to investigating distress in older adult cancer patients approaching end of life.
Detailed information on all UAB abstracts is online at abstract.asco.org; search University of Alabama at Birmingham.